/*  
  -- The Lime II Project -- 

  A tuplespaces-based middleware for coordinating agents and mobile hosts.
  Copyright (C) 2005.
  Gian Pietro Picco, Amy L. Murphy, Lorenzo Bellini.

  This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
  modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
  License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
  version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

  This library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
  Lesser General Public License for more details.

  You should have received this copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
  License along with this library; if not, write to the Free Software
  Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA 
*/

package lime2;

/**
 * Defines the various kinds of communication failures.
 * <br>
 * This interface is used by package <code>ca</code>.
 * 
 * @author Gian Pietro Picco
 * @author Amy Murphy
 * @author Lorenzo Bellini 
 */

public interface Failures 
{
 /**
  * This kind of communication failure compromises the whole communication layer.
  */	
 public final static byte CRITICAL = 0;	
			
 /** 
  * This kind of communication failure compromises completely the involved remote operation.
  */
 public final static byte TOTAL = 1;

 /** 
  * This kind of communication failure compromises partially the involved remote operation.
  */
 public final static byte PARTIAL = 2;	

 /**
  * This kind of communication failure doesn't need to be dealt with.
  */
 public final static byte IRRELEVANT = 3;
  
}
